Improvement in cultivators



UNITED STATES JAMES WADDELL, OF LIBERTY, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,206, dated September 19, 1871.

To all whom it may concer/n.: x

`Be it known that I, JAMES WADDELL, of Liberty, in the county of Union and in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oultivator; and do hereby del clare that the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description thereof, referen ce being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a cultivator, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth. In order to enable others skilled in the art t which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its con struction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Figure l is a side view and Fig. 2 a plan view of my machine.

A represents the main beam of my cultivator, tothe center of which the rear end of the tongue B is secured. In front of and parallel with the main beam A is a shorter beam, A1, also secured to the tongue B. "The tongue B is fastened on top of the beams A A1, and the double-tree C and neck-yoke D are pivoted in their respective places on the under side of the tongue. In the ends of the beam Al are elongated slots a., through which screws or headed bolts b pass down into bars E, said bars being further heldrby similar screws or bolts passing through slots in the beam A; and the rear'ends of these bars are held by slotted braces G G, connecting with the same bolt that attaches the tongue to the beam A. In the ends of the beam A are elongated slots a', through which screws or headed bolts b pass down into bars E', said bars' being, near their rear ends, connected with the rear ends of the bars E by means of connecting-bars A2, as shown. Through the bars E E, immediately in rear of the Vbeam A, are made mortises for the passage of the tenons on the upper ends of the plowstocks I I, said tenons being pivoted in said mortises and `bearing against the rear edge of the" beam, which is cut out for that purpose. In like manner the tenons of plow-stocks Il I pass through mortises in the bars E E in rear ofthe bars A2. The plow-stocks I I are braced, as shown, by braces d d and c. H H are the handles, attached to the bars E E between the beams A A1.

By the construction of this cultivator the distance between the plows may be readily regulated at will. p

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- V The within-described adjustable cultivatorframe, to which the plow-Shanks are attached, consisting of the four beams E E E Ef, the two 'slotted cross-beams Al and Alsecured by the headed bolts b b', the connecting-bars A2 A2, and the oblique slotted braces Gr Gr, all constructed `and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

In testimony thatV I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 28th day of June, 1871.

JAMES WADDELL.

Witnesses:

H. S. MAXWELL, W. W. SULLIVAN. 

